Journey Cover Band, The Photo Hey, how are you guys? New wondertime columns are here and here . You will notice that there's a link th...

And the winning reassurance is. . . . "It's very unlikely that you will get botulism!" That actually made me laugh out loud. A...

Obsessive Pioneer All I can say is that if Pa could see me now, well, Ma Ingalls might have something to worry about. Because our shelves o...

Summer feels, oddly, like it's already ending, doesn't it? Or is that just me and my usual preemptive melancholy? Everything is flyi...

Some Clarification So, the latest wondertime posts are here and here. And I just thought I should mention that--well, you know all that Th...

Hello! I hope you're all eating lots of buttered corn and blueberries. New wondertime columns are here and here. More soon. . .

The Dress I'm Not Wearing to the Party The most recent wondertime column is here , though another one should go up later today. I also ...

A Placeholder For the longer post I want to write. Thank you so much for your well wishes, about everything. I have felt so cheered by your ...

Come and See Me Some Time! If you happen to be up in the Berkshires. This Saturday, June 23rd. At 7 pm. Which is when I'm reading with m...

A Gift So I don't mean to keep on and on about it, but I finished Animal, Vegetable, Miracle , and I wanted to share something from it t...

The Voice Which is like a cross between Miss Long Island reading her shopping list and a goose honking by frantically after the rest of the ...

Allergy Relief does not seem to be obtained from rogue biofeedback. Ever since Michael completed his massage program, I treat him like an al...

The Annual Mother's Day Pimp-My-Book Post I am writing the annual pimp-my-book post to say that this might make a nice mother's day ...

Rock-a-bye I had this idea for a post that I was going to call "shame" and it was going to be a photograph of the snow pants Ben ...

P.S. The whole reason I wrote today was to check in with you about the shootings yesterday, but then I wrote something weird and deleted it ...

My Thyroid Has Great Self Esteem, Thanks to You Here's why I love you: when I post a paranoid column about my hypochondria and psychosom...

I Wish I'd Thought to switch my kids' underpants with their dad's! Boy would that have killed them. It makes me laugh just to th...

April 1, 2007 Ben's first telephone conversation with a peer (on speakerphone): Friend: Hi Ben. Ben: Hi. [crickets chirping] F: Do you h...

More Meta Commentary Things I truly appreciate: The idea that we're cycling together (We're in love! Plus, I get to picture us all o...

Edited The funny thing is that I had actually written "I" about drinking that wine--but then became self conscious about the lonel...